searchDC

@app.route('/search/<string:q>', methods=['POST'])
def query_docs(q):
    q = q.replace("offset:undefined", "offset:0")  # if something goes wrong, just set offset to 0
    searchterm = str('projectid: "1542-city-of-new-orleans-contracts"' + " " + q).split("&&")[0].strip()

    print searchterm
    vendor = getTerm(searchterm, 'vendor')
    officers = getTerm(searchterm, 'officers')
    department = getTerm(searchterm, 'department')
    offset = getOffSet(q)

    if offset is None:
        return "Server error. Please contact The Lens"

    # print '**vendor**' + vendor + '****'
    # print '**officers**'  + officers + '****'
    # print '**department**'  + department + '****'

    if len(officers) > 0:
        officers = [officers]
        vendor = translateToVendor(officers[0])
        searchterm = searchterm.replace("officers:", "").replace('"' + officers[0] + '"', "") + ' vendor:"' + vendor + '"'

    print "vendor {}".format(vendor)

    if searchterm == 'projectid: "1542-city-of-new-orleans-contracts"':
        docs = getContracts(0, PAGELENGTH)
        docs = translateToDocCloudForm(docs)
    else:
        docs = queryDocumentCloud(searchterm)
        # extract a window of PAGELENGTH number of docs
        docs = docs[offset*PAGELENGTH:((offset+1)*PAGELENGTH)]

    totaldocs = getTotalDocs(searchterm)

    pages = (totaldocs/PAGELENGTH)

    vendor = vendor.upper()
    pages = pages + 1  # increment 1 to get rid of 0 indexing
    page = offset + 1  # increment 1 to get rid of 0 indexing
    status = getStatus(page, pages, searchterm)
    return render_template('documentcloud.html', status=status, docs=docs, offset=offset, totaldocs=totaldocs, page=page, pages=pages, officers=officers, vendor=vendor, query=searchterm)